March 15
Rachel Donelson born, eighth child of John Donelson and Rachel Stockley
Donelson party reached Fort Nashborough
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March 15 |
Andrew Jackson born in the Waxhaws, South Carolina |
| date unknown |
Rachel Donelson born, eighth child of John Donelson and Rachel Stockley |
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| unknown | Andrew Jackson, Sr., died; tradition says before Jackson was born | |
| 1774 | July 4 | First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia |
| 1779 | c June 22 | Hugh Jackson,Andrew's older brother, died |
| December | Donelson family and party began river journey to western lands | |
| 1780 | April |
Donelson party reached Fort Nashborough |
| c Fall | Donelson family moved to Harrodsburg area (Kentucky) | |
| 1781 | c May | Robert Jackson Andrew's middle brother, died Fall Elizabeth Jackson, Andrew's mother, died |
| 1785 | c March | Rachel Donelson married Lewis Robards in Kentucky |
| 1786 | Donelson family returned to Tennessee | |
| John Donelson murdered | ||
| 1784-1787 | Jackson studied law under two different teachers | |
| 1787 | September 26 | Jackson licensed to practice law in North Carolina |
| 1788 | date unknown | Rachel Robards returned to Nashville from Kentucky |
| October | Jackson settled in Nashville | |
| November | Licensed to practice law in Davidson County | |
| 1789 | February 4 | George Washington elected first president |
| 1790 | December 20 | Lewis Robards secured consent of Virginia legislature to seek divorce in Kentucky |
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| 1791 | c August | Rachel married Andrew Jackson for first time, in Natchez |
| 1792 | February 23 | Bought Poplar Grove farm in Davidson County; sold in October 1797 |
| 1793 | September 27 | Lewis Robards' divorce from Rachel granted |
| 1794 | January 18 | Rachel married Andrew Jackson for second time |
| 1796 | Jan 11—Feb 6 | Jackson served in Tennessee Constitutional Convention |
| June 1 | Tennessee admitted as a state | |
| October 22 | Jackson elected to U.S. House of Representatives | |
| December 5 | Jackson took seat in Congress (in Philadelphia) | |
| 1797 | September 26 | Jackson elected to U.S. Senate from Tennessee |
| November 22 | Jackson took Senate seat (in Philadelphia) | |
| 1798 | September 20 | Jackson commissioned interim Tennessee Superior Court Judge |
| December 20 | Jackson elected Judge of Superior Court of Tennessee | |
| 1799-1804 | Jackson rode circuit as Judge of Superior Court | |
| 1801 | c November 17 | Rachel Stockley Donelson, Rachel Jackson's mother, died |
| 1802 | February 5 | Jackson elected Major General of Tennessee militia |
| 1804 | March 26 | Orleans Territory created; Jackson sought governorship |
| July 23 | Jackson resigned Superior Court judgeship | |
| August 23 | Jackson purchased Hermitage property | |
| 1805 | May 11 | Jackson purchased stud horse Truxton |
| November 28 | Race between Truxton and Ploughboy canceled | |
| 1806 | April 3 | Race between Ploughboy and Truxton |
| May 23 | Jackson challenged Charles Dickinson to a duel | |
| May 30 | Dickinson killed in duel; Jackson wounded | |
| 1808 | December 4 | Andrew Jackson, son of Severn and Elizabeth Rucker Donelson, born; adopted by Jacksons |
| 1810 | January | Jackson sought judgeship in Mississippi Territory |
| 1811 | December 16 | Severe earthquakes, centered about New Madrid, along the Mississippi Valley |
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| 1812 | February 6 | U.S. declared war on Great Britain |
| December 10 | Second Division troops (of Tennessee militia) mustered in Nashville for expedition to New Orleans | |
| 1813 | January 1 | Troops departed Nashville under Jackson |
| February 6 | Secretary of War ordered Jackson's troops dismissed | |
| March 24 | Jackson's volunteers began return march to Nashville | |
| September 4 | Jackson wounded in fight with Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton in Nashville | |
| September 24 | Second Division troops mustered in Nashville for departure to the Creek country; campaign against Creeks continued into 1814 | |
| November 3 | Lyncoya found and later sent to the Hermitage | |
| 1814 | May 28 | Jackson commissioned major general of the U.S. Army by President Madison |
| August 9 | Treaty of Fort Jackson sealed Creek capitulation | |
| November 7 | Jackson seized Pensacola December Jackson arrived in New Orleans and imposed martial law | |
| 1815 | January 8 | Battle of New Orleans |
| April 6 | Left New Orleans for Nashville | |
| c October 13 | Jackson and Rachel left for Washington, taking Andrew, Jr., with them | |
| 1816 | February 1 | Returned to Nashville from Washington |
| 1817 | c February 22 |
Ralph E.W. Earl painted his first portrait of Jackson
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| Fall | John Hutchings died; his five-year-old son Andrew Jackson Hutchings was named Jackson's ward and came to live at the Hermitage | |
| 1818 | April-May | Troops under Jackson invaded Spanish Florida; occupied Pensacola |
| 1819 | January | Jackson traveled to Washington to defend his actions in the Seminole campaign |
| February | Jackson toured Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York | |
| Summer | Construction begun on new house at the Hermitage; finished in 1821 | |
| 1821 | March 10 | Jackson appointed governor of Florida Territory |
| July 17 | Florida received for the U.S. from Spanish authorities | |
| November 13 | Jackson resigned as governor of Florida | |
| 1822 | July 30 | Tennessee legislature nominated Jackson for president |
| 1823 | October 1 | Jackson elected to the U.S. Senate; left for Washington in November |
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| 1824 | March 4 | Jackson nominated for president |
| 1825 | February 9 | House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president |
| April | Jacksons returned to Tennessee | |
| May 5 | The Marquis de Lafayette visited the Hermitage | |
| 1826 | December | Nashville Central Committee began collecting affidavits concerning marriage of Rachel and Jackson |
| 1827 | June | Nashville Central Committee completed report on marriage |
| 1828 | January 8 | Attended New Orleans anniversary celebration in New Orleans |
| June 1 | Lyncoya died | |
| November | Jackson elected president | |
| December 22 | Rachel died | |
| 1829 | January 19 | Jackson departed for Washington |
| 1832 | November 1 | Rachel Jackson, granddaughter, born |
| March 4 | Inauguration | |
| 1833 | March 4 | Jackson inaugurated for 2nd term as president |
| 1834 | April 4 | Andrew Jackson III, grandson, born |
| October 13 | Hermitage partly destroyed by fire | |
| 1845 | June 8 | Jackson died at the Hermitage, aged 78 |
| June 10 | Jackson buried in the Hermitage garden beside Rachel | |
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Rachel and
Andrew Jackson: A Love Story
is an original Nashville Public Television production.
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